Despite finishing runner up in 2014 Brendan Reeves hasn’t locked in a campaign for the 2015 season, and admits that apart from local options in Australia he’s still pursuing opportunities overseas including a return to either the United States or Europe.
“At this early stage of the year I’m still investigating a number of options,” said Brendan when contacted about his plans for the year.
Reeves finished 44 points behind newly crowned Champion Scott Pedder in last year’s East Coast Bullbars Australian Rally Championship, driving a front-wheel drive Mazda2. But after the rallyschool.com.au team elected to park their Mazda2 for the season ahead, Reeves was left with limited local options.
“I do still have my Subaru (Impreza WRX), I re-prepared it for the Akademos Rally at the end of last year, and it was running really well, so there is definitely an option to use that to contest the 4WD series this year,” commented Reeves.
“If I do head down that path I’d look to miss the first Round in WA and start in Canberra, and then do the three Rounds after that including the APRC in Queensland and the WRC in Coffs Harbour.”
Reeves, who lives in rural Victoria, said it was a shame that this year’s ECB ARC doesn’t feature a ‘home Round’ for him. “Just from a logistics point of view it was always nice to have a local Round. As it is it’ll be 7-hours to Canberra, and 7-hours to Adelaide, so that’s not too bad.”
With the National Capital Rally, the second Round of the Championship in Canberra, not held until May, Reeves believes he has plenty of time on his side to pursue other opportunities locally and overseas.
“Each year I try to go bigger than I did the year before. We finished second in the ARC last year, so it’s disappointing that we aren’t in a position to be able to fight to win the ARC this year in a leading front-wheel drive car.”
“In a way though that’s focused me to look at other options, and not just competing either, there are some plans with driver training that are looking quite promising.”
Having spent 2010, 2011 and 2012 competing in Europe Reeves admitted that he’s still keen to crack back onto the World Championship circuit. “For sure, that’s something every driver wants to do. It’s interesting, the market for young drivers in Europe is definitely picking up and that makes it even more challenging to break back in.”
“I would have loved to do the Drive DMack Championship this year but securing the funding is always the challenge.”
“I’m hopeful for 2015, I think there are lots of positive things in the works. I’m really focusing on keeping my profile up, and keeping my current sponsors happy, and maybe adding a couple of new ones this year too,” Reeves added.
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